Playful Education provides a guide for you to activate the powers of play to boost your teaching practices and increase your effectiveness as an educator. Based on Virginia Axline and Garry Landreth’s play therapy, this book is an operational and practical guide on using play therapy to strengthen your holistic learning development and relationships with students. Chapters offer practical responsive interventions for children with behavioral and academic challenges and preventative practices. You will learn the purpose and goals of implementing play times, (i.e., PlayBreaks), with individuals and groups of students, skills necessary to facilitate playtimes, and how to transfer play skills to the larger classroom. Educators will learn the foundations of play therapy and how they can be used to guide play within a classroom setting. Expanding beyond the classroom, this book is loaded with playful activities to enhance child-teacher relationships and integrate play throughout the school.
Author(s): Dee C. Ray
Publisher: Routledge/Eye on Education
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 166
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
The Child, The Teacher, and Play: An Introduction
PART I: Play Therapy and the Role of Play in the Schools
1 What Is Play Therapy and What Does It Have to Do with Schools?
2 The Power of Play in the Holistic Learning and Development of Children
3 Play and Development
4 Play and Self-Regulation
5 Play and Social Relationships
PART II: Activating the Powers of Play Between Teacher and Child: The PlayBreak
6 Bringing Together the Powers of Play to Activate Learning
7 The PlayBreak: A Special Playtime
8 The PlayBreak Attitudes
9 The PlayBreak Skills
10 Putting It All Together: The PlayBreak in Action
11 The Power of the PlayBreak: Case Study
PART III: Moving Play into the Classroom and School Culture
12 Transferring the PlayBreak Skills into the Classroom
13 Integrating Play in School Culture: Building Partnerships with Parents, Teachers, and Administrators
Bringing Back the Joy: Concluding Thoughts
Attachment A: Research on the Effectiveness of Play Therapy in the Schools
Attachment B: Play-Based Child-Teacher Relationship Intervention Studies
References
Index
